Joseph Couchis, a tanner (Gerber), his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth Josepha (age 3) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Herrmann Joseph Couchis, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Anna Maria (age 7-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Fischer in Household No. 29.
The 1767 census records that Herrmann Joseph Couchis came from the French village of Halensherr [?] and that his wife came from the Polish village of Preschenelau [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 51.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 416.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #53.
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